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The 13in MacBook Pro ships with Apple’s latest macOS 10.15 Catalina, which introduced Sidecar, which instantly turns an iPad into a second screen for your Mac Mac Catalyst, which helps developers such as Twitter port their iPad apps to the Mac and splits iTunes into separate Apple TV, Music and Podcasts apps. The Touch Bar remains like Marmite, but it is extremely useful with the right apps such as the excellent Affinity Photo.

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Apple is also using renewable energy for final assembly of the machine, and breaks down the computer’s environmental impact in its report.Īpple also offers trade-in and free recycling schemes, including for non-Apple products.

The MacBook Pro uses 100% recycled tin in the solder of its logic board and at least 35% recycled plastic used in multiple components, but does not use recycled aluminium like the MacBook Air. The computer is generally repairable too, although the RAM and SSD chips are soldered in place. MacOS Catalina 10.5.5 added a new battery health management system that prolongs the lifespan of the laptop’s battery by learning from your charge patterns and limiting the maximum charge capacity when it can. The battery can replaced for £199 by Apple. Unlike the MacBook Air, Apple does not provide charge-cycle rating for the battery for the MacBook Pro. The 13in MacBook Pro is one of the more sustainable laptops you can buy. The new battery health management system should help to prolong the lifetime of the battery, particularly if you leave the laptop plugged in all the time. It’s worth noting the 13in MacBook Pro lacks the latest wifi 6, only supporting the older wifi ac standard instead, and that the laptop doesn’t have any of the older USB-A ports or an integrated memory card reader.

The 13in MacBook Pro ships with a fairly beefy 61W USB-C charger, which hits 70% in an hour and fully charges the laptop in one hour 50 minutes. It’s also longer than Huawei’s MateBook X Pro and Microsoft’s Surface Laptop 3. It lasted more than 7.5 hours when that workload also included two hours of photo editing.įor perspective, that’s well over an hour longer than the similar spec 2017 model and about the same as the entry-level MacBook Air with a dual-core Core i3 processor. Photograph: Samuel Gibbs/The Guardianīattery life was also surprisingly good lasting more than 9.5 hours with light usage, mainly browsing in Chrome and Reeder, email, instant messaging and writing duty with the brightness set to 75%. If you want a powerful but quiet machine, this is it.Īpple’s all-aluminium build quality is second to none in laptops. It was totally silent even while photo editing, only audible while doing really intensive tasks and when connected to power – not something that can be said for every machine. One thing to note is that the laptop ran super cool. The only power-feature missing is a dedicated graphics card, which is reserved for Apple’s top 16in model but that machine comes with a significant portability penalty compared to the 13in model. It handled complex image editing jobs in Affinity Photo, some 4K video editing and all general computing with ease. The four-port 13in MacBook Pro, tested with the 10th-generation Core i5 processor and 16GB of RAM, performs as you would expect from a top-spec machine.īenchmarks place it as roughly 15% faster than the previous generation and the cheaper two-port machine with older chips. Some other laptops have good, precise and large trackpads but nothing comes close to the precision, accuracy, size and utility of Apple’s force-sensing trackpads.īoth models of the 13in MacBook Pro have two USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 ports on the left side of the laptop, which can be used for charging or connecting peripherals. It’s also worth pointing out that Apple’s trackpads are unparalleled.

If you were put off purely by the previous keyboard, you are now safe to buy a 13in MacBook Pro. I’ve found it useful, particularly in Affinity Photo, where being able to change the brush size and other adjustments on-the-fly using a slider on the Touch Bar is a godsend. The keys feel good with a subtle doming, and the 1mm key-travel – the distance the key sinks when pressed – is enough to be satisfying while still being firm and stable. It’s one of the best fitted to any laptop, coming very close to Microsoft’s best-in-class design. It’s the same keyboard as the MacBook Air and 16in MacBook Pro and is just as good here. The new bit is the Magic Keyboard, which is Apple’s name for the more traditional scissor-switch mechanism that replaces the issue-prone butterfly keyboard. The Magic Keyboard is great, prioritising function over form, as it should, and complementing the truly best-in-class trackpad.